The length property of the string object returns
the number of words in the string
the index of the first character in the string
the index of the last character in the string
the number of characters in the string

the number of characters in the string.

Explanation:

length property of a String object returns the total count of the characters in the string or provides the length of the string simply.

For example:-

import java.util.*;

import java.lang.*;

import java.io.*;

class length

{

public static void main (String[] args)

{

    String s="IamNumber4";

    int l=s.length();//using length method on string object..

    System.out.println(l);

}

}

Output:-

10

The code written above is in java.The length() method returned the count of characters of the string s that is a actually 10.

i've had the same problem. i generally just ignore it, as a ton of these "verified answers" are completely wrong.